Natural Resource Navigator Guidebook

The Natural Resource Navigator is accompanied by a guidebook that provides instructions, decision support, and background resources for climate adaptation planning. Download the complete Navigator Guidebook, or jump directly to one of the sections below:

Wayfinder – Step-by-step instructions and worksheets to help you decide on what and where to work, what to do, and/or evaluate climate risk for existing projects.

Course Adjustment Worksheets – Help you refine conservation objectives to more specific strategies in light of climate change, using data in the Map Tool as well as your own knowledge and judgment.

More To Explore – Additional information on planning for climate change, and highlights additional resources to help you plan and implement your project.

Tactics Toolbox – A searchable database of specific tactics to help implement strategies and make sure they are climate smart. Use the Wayfinder above to identify a set of recommended tactics for your project, or explore the complete Toolbox on your own.

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Project Reports

The Navigator reveals that protected areas and potentially resilient strongholds across New York are jeopardized by current condition impairments. The majority of forests in most regions are in poor condition, making them vulnerable to climate change stressors.

Larger streams and rivers in New York are hampered by impairments like flow alterations and water quality that limit their ability to adapt well, and 60% of streams are at high or very high risk from climate change.

Less than one-third of New York’s floodplains remain as high functioning natural infrastructure that could help reduce impacts of more frequent and severe storms.